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Designing by feeling: How I built a mood-to-color palette tool with AI

Medium·Alara W·6 months ago
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The Personal Workflow That Started It

Before building the tool, my color workflow looked something like this:

1. Search Pinterest, Twitter/X, or design blogs for inspiration.

2. Save screenshots or color palette images.

3. Open images in Figma, Photoshop, or a browser tool.

4. Use an eyedropper to extract colors.

5. Copy the HEX codes manually.

6. Try them in a website, brand deck, poster, or graphic.

7. Repeat because the first palette often did not work.

It was enjoyable in a treasure-hunt way, but slow.

The friction was not just collecting colors.…

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